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Atlantic Islands, Canary Islands

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

Las Canteras city beach

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass

Also reported: worn tiles possible.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

3 km urban beach behind the La Barra reef, fronting the city that grew with Puerto de la Luz from the 1880s coaling and banana trade

beach and port history documented on Wikipedia; a century of dense urban waterfront makes beach glass plausible but no collecting accounts were found

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

crowds, theft of unattended bags

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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